5 DIY Holiday Baked Gifts in a Jar with FREE Printable Recipe Tags

It’s that time of year when we are baking and gift giving. Sometimes you don’t have time to do both, but by making a DIY Holiday Baked Gift in a Jar you are giving the gift of baking without turning your oven on. These make great teacher gifts, hostess gifts, neighbor gifts, hairdresser gifts, babysitter gifts, office colleague gifts–anyone you want to express your appreciation to this Holiday season or throughout the year.

A Few Helpful Tips

1. Cut the bottom off of a plastic cup and use as a funnel.

2. Poor ingredients through funnel into jar. You could use a 1/4 cup dry measuring cup or spoon to help add ingredients to your jars.

3. I used a small gravy ladle to pat down the ingredients in between layers. You could also use the end of a wooden spoon or something similar to level and tap down each layer before adding the next one.

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Has anyone actually made the Santa Cookies? I did this for all my co-workers without ever trying it out. The baking soda and baking powder quantities look high for such a small batch. Now I’m worried it’s a misprint. The jars looked really cute all made up, now I’m just hoping the cookies were good.

Thank you so much these look amazing!!!!! Is there anyway we can get printable labels in Celcius instead of Farenheit??? Would love to give these as a gift but ovens in Australia are Celcius lol
Thank you so much again
Sarz

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Sorry for my delayed response. I’ve been on vacation for Thanksgiving :). I have never used fresh cranberries instead of dried ones. This page has some good tips for you to follow though: Using fresh instead of dried cranberries in baking. Good luck and let me know how they turn out!!

Yes! That is the only dried banana that I know of. I bought mine from a Super Target. Most grocery stores have them. If you are having trouble finding them, you could make your own. I just found this great and super easy recipe: How to Make Dried Bananas in the Microwave: 5 Steps.Good luck and let me know how it turns out!!!

Thank you! I do in home daycare so I’m going to give them out to my daycare parents and a few friends. The liquid must soften them up, I hope! LOL! Also do you know an easy way of breaking them up or can you buy them already in pieces? I’m getting ready to head to the store;)Thanks for your reply!

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Hi! I made up a few of the Santa Cookies, and had one left over so I decided to make it. Well the brown sugar was rock solid and I was not able to get to the rest of the ingredients out. Any tips for next time?

Oh, no! It sounds like maybe your brown sugar was old or your jar wasn’t sealed tight enough?? The mixes should be stored in a cool, dry place. Maybe it got too warm. I read that these mixes should last up to a year if stored properly, but I use mine right away and haven’t had any problems.

Hello,
I just wanted to say thank you so much for these free printable labels. My department wanted to give gift baskets to some people who helped us with a project, and my contribution was the pumpkin cranberry bread mix in a jar. It was such a big hit–mostly because that label is in the colors of my company logo–that my boss asked me to make more for future gifts!

What do you estimate the cost of each Gift Jar once completed? (I know they will vary, but an idea would be helpful for me). These look great. Especially appreciative that you have printable tags. Thanks!

I’m not sure about making one big batch. If you can figure it out then kudos to you, but I’m worried you wouldn’t get the correct amount of dry ingredients in each jar. I made about seven all at once, but mixed each jar separately. It was like an assembly line. Good luck!

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I think many of the recipes say up to a year when stored in an airtight container in a cool, dry place, but personally, I would say 2-3 months tops. Hope this helps! Love the idea of an expiration date!!

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I made the whole set of these for my mother for Christmas – huge hit! She won’t stop talking about them and is showing everyone lol…. anyway, I just wanted to say I didn’t use wide mouth jars (didn’t realize I was supposed to) but they still turned out perfect!

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Just made the Cranberry Winter Cookie Jar (yummm!) but had room left over. :/ I did 2 more layers, 1 of cranberries and 1 of the chips to fill it all the way. Any idea what I did wrong? Do you think they will still come out okay? (I packed down the brown sugar, and subbed rice krispies for the pecans… thinking that might be it? It was a 1 qt jar from the Dollar Tree.)

Don’t worry! I’m here!! Heath chips are milk chocolate toffee bits. Do you have toffee candy bars in New Zealand? If so, just chop one or two up for the recipe…or buy them from Amazon HERE! Hope this helps!!!

The Winter Cranberry Cookies are DIVINE! I made the recipe ahead of time to make sure it was both easy for the recipient to prepare as well as delicious, and I devoured them! It’s a good thing I’m gifting these unmade, because I’m not sure they would make it to their destination baked! Thanks for the great printouts and recipe!

Love these! Hubby & I are going to be making the Santas cookies for some little Xmas gifts this year! Just a quick question (might be obvious!!) but it says 1 1/3 cup of flour in the Santa’s cookies recipe – does that mean just a 1/3 of a cup or 1 cup & another 1/3? Thank you! X

I just made seven “sets” of these to give out as Christmas gifts this year and every single one turned out great! One question: I used 1 quart mason jars, and none have a perfectly smooth side to stick the labels on. How did you get yours to stick? I may end up just tying a ribbon around the neck and turning the labels into gift tags, but your pictures look so pretty with the labels on the jar!

Thanks for the recipes and the cute label PDFs! I can’t wait for friend and family to open/use these!

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I just added some easy to follow printing instructions at the bottom of the post. Go here and then scroll to the bottom under Post Updates. Hopefully these instructions will help you print the labels. Good luck!!

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I love this!!! Thank you for all of the cool ideas and for the free printable jar tags. You made my life a lot easier this Christmas. And using the glue dots is a great idea – I used to always tie a ribbon around the top of the jar and attach a tag to the ribbon but I like the glue dots idea much better. I made the Toffee Blondie Bars for Christmas gifts – I can’t wait to try them for myself!

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I received the cranberry winter cookies as a Gift from our daughter-in-law. They were so simple to throw together and I was surprised that the recipe actually gave me the 18 cookies it said it would. These cookies are relish and I will be passing these on in the near future

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